ninth century China. 10-year-old normal’s daughter Nie Yinniang is kidnapped by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, remodeling her into an distinctive murderer charged with eliminating merciless and corrupt native governors. Someday, having failed in a job, she is distributed again by her mistress to the land of her beginning, with orders to kill the person to whom she was promised – a cousin who now leads the biggest navy area in North China. After 13 years of exile, the younger lady should confront her mother and father, her reminiscences and her long-repressed emotions.